The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard
This wasn’t bad, but it could have been so much better. I think I just really don’t gel with this author. I read a short story from her that one year I voted for the Hugos and it turned me off so hard from her stuff. She seemed like the kind of author who was more interested in being artsy and impressive than in telling a good story. Those kinds of authors and I usually butt heads. So when this book was chosen for December’s […]
Prime Meridian by Silvia Morena-Garcia
I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir by Precious Brady-Davis
Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard
An assortment of books that have been on my kindle for a while – half read and now finally finished Prime Meridian More of a novella, this is set in a near future where humanity is starting to head to Mars, but much of our current issues are are still there. The heroine, Amelia, doesn’t have much money. She scrapes a living with various tasks and dreams of being an astronaut. She had a relationship with an artist who turned out to be wealthy, but […]
Livresquejess made my night with an email gifting me with three ebooks. I know, I am so basic, I really only read on my tablet these days. I am so excited, just look at these beauties: I have been drooling over The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings since some time late last year when I saw a blurb about it on Twitter (RIP BookTwitter). Last year I saw a review of Half a Soul from KJ Charles and have been wanting it since, […]
Of Dragons, Feasts, and Murder by Aliette de Bodard
CBR14 Bingo: “Elephant” – There’s a metaphorical elephant in the room, no one seems willing to discuss how the system of repressing people’s freedoms is causing the rot at the heart of the dragon empire. First of all, thank you, Emmalita, for bringing this to my attention. You were right, I did enjoy it and it’s the perfect length for this stage of the bingo game! Of Dragons, Feasts, and Murder is a novella set after the events of de Bodard’s “Dominion of the Fallen” […]
The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
2022 continues to be the reading year of grief and trauma, which is no surprise giving everything that has been going on in the world for, well, a really long time. I can see how the generational trauma of colonialism has informed this universe. As I read, it became clear that Aliette de Bodard was playing with the word ‘wake’ in the title, The Red Scholar’s Wake. Wake: to transition from sleep; a gathering before the funeral, the track left by a moving body. Huân, […]
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders by Aliette de Bodard
Of Charms, Ghosts, and Grievances by Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard’s Dragons and Blades series is a stand alone spin-off from her Dominion of the Fallen series. I didn’t feel like I was lacking information, but I am now intrigued enough that I want to read it. At some point during the first series, a marriage is arranged between Thuan, a lower level prince in the Imperial Family, and Asmodeus, a murder happy fallen angel. The marriage may not have initially been welcome by either party (they planned to kill each other), they […]
